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OhNo-Really

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6. Google is your friend. This took a couple minute to find
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 11:57 PM
Feb 2018
According to the Steele dossier —vehemently disputed by Page and subsequently rubbished by Nunes, and Republicans —the real purpose of Page’s trip was clandestine. He had come to meet with the Kremlin. And in particular with Igor Sechin. Sechin was a former spy and, more importantly, someone who commanded Putin’s absolute confidence. He was in effect Russia’s second most powerful official, its de facto deputy leader.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/03/carter-page-nunes-memo-216934

This Politico article tells most of the Carter Page story and his Russian ties beginning in the 1990s.

Politico ends the article with


Whatever Page’s motives were for helping Russian intelligence—greed, naivety, stupidity—his actions surely justified the FBI’s interest in him. There was a simple way of avoiding U.S. surveillance and a FISA court warrant. It could be summed up like this: Don’t hang out with Russian spies.
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